Why Chuck Schumer Holds So Much Power

[cotton1706]

Because 79% of the Democrat caucus has been elected since 2006, and Chuck Schumer hand-picked most of them.

They are loyal militants dedicated to the socialist cause.

Leahy (VT) - 1974

Feinstein (CA) - 1992

Murray WA - 1992

Durbin (IL) - 1996

Reed (RI) - 1996

Wyden (OR) - 1996

Schumer (NY) - 1998

Cantwell (WA) - 2000

Carper (DE) - 2000

Stabenow (MI) - 2000

Brown (OH) - 2006

Cardin (MD) - 2006

Casey (PA) - 2006

Kaine (VA) - 2006

Klobuchar (MN) - 2006

Menendez (NJ) - 2006

Sanders (VT) - 2006

Tester (MT) - 2006

Bennett (CO) - 2008

Merkley (OR) - 2008

Shaheen (NH) - 2008

Udall (NM) - 2008

Warner (VA) - 2008

Gillibrand (NY) - 2009

Blumenthal (CT) - 2010

Coons (DE) - 2010

Manchin (WV) - 2010

Baldwin (WI) - 2012

Heinrich (NM) - 2012

Hirono (HI) - 2012

King (ME) - 2012

Murphy (CT) - 2012

Warren (MA) - 2012

Whitehouse (RI) - 2012

Booker (NJ) - 2013

Markey (MA) - 2013

Peters (MI) - 2014

Schatz (HI) - 2014

Cortez Masto (NV) - 2016

Duckworth (IL) - 2016

Harris (CA) - 2016

Hassan (NH) - 2016

Van Hollen (MD) - 2016

Jones (AL ) - 2017

Smith (MN) - 2017

Rosen (NV) - 2018

Sinema AZ - 2018

[morphing libertarian]

no it’s because the republicans are not united

[The Sons of Liberty]

no it’s because the republicans are not united

TRANSLATION: The "so-called" GOP is made up of RINOs and lilly-livered country club republicans, who are only interested in what THEY can get for themselves and when the next cocktail party is scheduled.

[Steamburg]

The republican leadership has failed to employ party discipline. When every Republican runs to a microphone to attacks every democrat statement as Anti-American and defines democrats as radical leftists associated with the Russians; then Chuckie will be stuffed. But, that requires a serious draining of the swamp at the staff level.

[JayAr36]

Because of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. That’e the only thing real to a politician.

Anyone that thinks they are there to help America is living in a dream world.

[dp0622]

Well then let’s #### them in 2 years if Trump already nominates all the SC members he can.

We vote CONSERVATIVE ticket down the line.

Unless said R who is running IS a conservative.

Then we vote for them.

[EagleUSA]

“...no it’s because the republicans are not united...”

Cowardice and greed for lobby money.

[Nifster]

It ain’t a socialist anything. Call it what it really is .....communism

None Dare Call It Treason

[ClearCase_guy]

The 17th Amendment is a bad thing.

The Founders wanted state legislatures to choose senators as people who would represent the interest of their own state. Because States’ Rights are important in a federated union.

But then Senators became popularly elected, so mob rule became extended, and the senate became more of a national body looking at national issues in ways that appealed to the American mob.

And, in its extreme, the Senate becomes a body of specially powerful individuals hand-picked by Chuck Schumer, and the Senate becomes the instrument of one nut-case.

This would never be possible if state legislatures were still expected to look out for their own interests.

[Carriage Hill]

That should be a “opportunistic targeting” list.

[SpaceBar]

Looks like a list of people that need to be arrested.

[TribalPrincess2U]

I agree.

Republicans =(politicians as usual) who don’t want their cushy way of life interrupted.

And they hate that a non-politician made president and has balls!

[BwanaNdege]

Seniority should have NO place in determining Congressional power!

Each State’s Senators and Representatives should have the same power. Just because some third-world dictatorial State/Congressional District keeps sending the same person does not make them more important than one that sends a new person each election.

Last time I looked at the Constitution, “No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States” Article I, Section 9, Clause 8.

Also, Thomas Paine said, “Dignities and high sounding names have different effects on different beholders. The lustre of the Star and the title of My Lord, over-awe the superstitious vulgar, and forbid them to inquire into the character of the possessor: Nay more, they are, as it were, bewitched to admire in the great, the vices they would honestly condemn in themselves. This sacrifice of common sense is the certain badge which distinguishes slavery from freedom; for when men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon”.

[x]

Both parties have been getting more homogeneous and more disciplined over the last 30 or 40 years.

Notice how the number of Republicans and Democrats who had similar voting records has decreased and how red and blue have pulled apart.

Republicans, as well as Democrats, tend more and more to vote the same way as the rest of their party, in spite of all the talk about Flake or McCain or Corker.

Right now the Democrats are more organized, drilled, and obedient.

That's because they are out of office and only have to vote "no."

Republicans don't have anything to offer them that could outweigh what their own party leadership and the ideologically energized donors and party base can.

When Democrats were in the White House and controlled Congress and had big plans there were a few more mavericks, dissenters, and drop-outs in their party, just as there are among Republicans now.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Like something you would want to tuck in your pocket...

[neverevergiveup]

“The “so-called” GOP is made up of RINOs and lilly-livered country club republicans..”

Yes. Also, anyone who is in government has a huge conflict of interest against doing anything that reduces their power or decreases their chances of holding on to power. This works perfectly for the Democrats, since they support and want the government to have enormous power. It is, however, in stark conflict with the Republican platform of limited government. To do what they say they want to do is to reduce their own power. This, in my opinion, is why when they aren't in power they say all kinds of things about what they're going to do, but when they have power they don't act.

[Dark Knight]

Campaign finance reform caused it. You cannot have a successful campaign without money from your party, they control who comes in...not perfectly but good enough. The only thing either party hates more than the other is anyone else. They make rules that prevent choice, like President Trump and when that happens, they are willing to burn down the barn, to prevent anyone from doing effective government.

Campaign finance law violations happen every election, but everyone PDJT has met is subject to malicious prosecution that has never been before. Do we have free political speech? No. SCOTUS was wrong and the media did not squawk.

Every time we elect someone that cannot take the oath of office (upholding the constitution as written) we are electing a traitor.

Tough talk but real.

DK

[Carriage Hill]

I wouldn’t carry that list; I’ve already memorized those traitors/socialists/commies/fascists/leftist filth.

[ScottfromNJ]

“no it’s because the republicans are not united”

And their leader McTurtle is a wimp.

[rockinqsranch]

When I think about negotiations between the President, and the Democrats I think “What do the Democrats want more than anything, and what does PDJT want more than anything?” I see an answer I don’t like. Democrats are in a position they don’t have anything requiring (key-word requiring) attention while PDJT has something on the line, his Presidency.

Democrats are going to want to push issues within the next two years. They are cutting off their noses to spite their faces by their actions.